Caxton

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Caxton, William 1422?-1491. English printer who published the first book in English, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (c. 1475).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

proper n. A surname.

n. Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The name applied to any book printed by William Caxton, (died 1491 or 1492), originally an English merchant in the Netherlands, who in advanced age learned the art of printing and introduced it into England.

Examples

I did not go to these countries out of mere curiosity I was asked to an important conference for the reaffirmation of the world's moral ideal in Caxton Hall in 1922 and from what I heard I made up my mind that I would see Prague, that new centre of Europe.

How the imagination recoils at the idea of Caxton's translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid, or perhaps his ` ` Lyf of therle of Oxenforde, '' together with many another book from our first presses, not a fragment of which do we now possess, being used for baking ` ` pyes. ''

Somewhat we must say however of the fine paper, exquisite typography, and two neat steel engravings with which this 'Caxton' edition is made beautiful and most suitable either for a lady's _étagere_-book-shelf or the most elegant library.